This 380 gun is in my pocket everywhere I go.
Posted on 01/11/2012 4:05:45 PM PST by Kartographer
When things get bad – and they will – the most essential items necessary for survival will disappear first. As currencies collapse, financial market destabilize and economies come to a standstill, critical supplies like food and medicine will become difficult to acquire at any price. This is exactly what is now taking place in Greece, where access to life-saving drugs and even common over-the-counter medicines like aspirin is becoming a tragedy where the losses will be measured not in Dollars or Euros, but lives.
Mina Mavrou, who runs a pharmacy in a middle-class Athens suburb, spends hours each day pleading with drugmakers, wholesalers and colleagues to hunt down medicines for clients. Life-saving drugs such as Sanofi (SAN)’s blood-thinner Clexane and GlaxoSmithKline Plc (GSK)’s asthma inhaler Flixotide often appear as lines of crimson data on pharmacists’ computer screens, meaning the products aren’t in stock or that pharmacists can’t order as many units as they need.
“When we see red, we want to cry,” Mavrou said. “The situation is worsening day by day.”
The 12,000 pharmacies that dot almost every street corner in Greek cities are the damaged capillaries of a complex system for getting treatment to patients. The Panhellenic Association of Pharmacists reports shortages of almost half the country’s 500 most-used medicines.
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“It would be unrealistic to deny that there are many difficulties regarding all public services due to the financial crisis,” Nicolaos Polyzos, secretary general of the Ministry of Health, wrote in a response to McKee’s article posted on the ministry’s website.
The reasons for the shortages are complex. One major cause is the Greek government, which sets prices for medicines. As part of an effort to cut its own costs, Greece has mandated lower drug prices in the past year. That has fed a secondary market, drug manufacturers contend, as wholesalers sell their shipments outside the country at higher prices than they can get within Greece.
Strained government finances only make matters worse. Wholesalers and pharmacists say the system suffers from a lack of liquidity, as public insurers delay payments to pharmacies, which in turn can’t pay suppliers on time.
Source: Bloomberg
Prepper’s Ping!
Crazytown!!
It’s started here in the U.S., too. I’ve been a nurse for almost 15 years & in the last year many of the meds I use everyday are on “national backorder” or shortage. No one can offer a reasonable explanation why.
“One major cause is the Greek government, which sets prices for medicines”
Gov’t price controls always work well. Just ask castro, chavez, or any other marxist./sarc
I’m gonna need a warehouse..........the list of crap I gotta stockpile keeps getting larger.
That doesn’t sound good.
And it’s not like there’s a worldwide shortage of these medicines apparently, it’s just a matter of being able to get them in Greece.
I love your tagline.
I’m an anesthetist so my experience is limited to drugs used in surgery, however I hear from others that they are facing shortages in critical care & oncology, too. Not good.
You got that right. No matter what I stockpile I realize that the task is near impossible. On another note I shot a 20 guage shotgun today. I think I am gonna go with a 380 first. The shotgun will be my second gun. Ill be purchasing my first weapon at the gun show this moth. Tick. One more thing off my prepper list.
You got that right. No matter what I stockpile I realize that the task is near impossible. On another note I shot a 20 guage shotgun today. I think I am gonna go with a 380 first. The shotgun will be my second gun. Ill be purchasing my first weapon at the gun show this moth. Tick. One more thing off my prepper list.
This 380 gun is in my pocket everywhere I go.
Thanks. I “borrowed” it from an anon poster at http://www.survivalblog.com
No one can offer a reasonable explanation why.
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The FDA now regulates how much med a manufacturer can make and distribute.
In other words: Hussain’s fault.
They can’t be found because we’ve had 30 years of free traitors in the white house and congress who shut down companies producing medicine here and moved it off shore.
There are directives in WTO trade agreements that gave patents for medicine away to least developed countries, so that they could make them there for less than it cost to make here.
So why manufacture medicine in the US it no longer made sense.
Of course quality issues abound with the foreign manufacture too, and conveniently, Obama is shutting down USDA inspection offices here so we will have a harder time knowing about the quality of food and health products here.
We have criminals in our congress and in the executive office that are doing this to our country.
The current crop of RINO republicans running for president will only continue on this path as they are on the globalist express to the detriment of us all.
Another good site for antibiotics and pretty much anything else without an RX is http://www.alldaychemist.com/
A few guys from another forum ordered a ton of the stuff recently and its all checked out A OK.
Anything I have picked up from them worked perfectly.
Due to very strict regs we have only a handful of manufacturers for critical ingredients used in drugs. If the vendor fails FDA sampling requirements, the entire monthly batch is destroyed. Without those ingredients available to the drug manufacturer drug production can come to a halt creating shortages.
Who thinks that everything that is happening in Greece won't happen in the U.S.A? The U.S. is in more debt than Greece.
How about making things In the U.S. again and telling China to go jump in the lake?
A country that doesn't make it's own clothes, TVs, and practically everything cannot survive.Plain Americans understand this . the Politicians don't or are just plain evil.
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